VacationSelector

Cordoba or Sao Paulo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CordobaSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Cordoba and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
CordobaSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance134 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
CordobaSao Paulo
Score4773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6161,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1327
Museums & heritage. Cordoba leads by 4 points.4
CordobaSao Paulo
Score4743
Museums within 10 km2082
Museums within 2 km of centre1926
Share of museums within 2 km %9532
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
CordobaSao Paulo
Score4372
Drinking venues within 4 km4441,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8051
Nightclubs within 4 km14118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
CordobaSao Paulo
Score3751
Protected land share 50 km %626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km108 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 8 points.8
CordobaSao Paulo
Score6355
Tourist attractions within 2 km5938
Park area within 2 km108 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
CordobaSao Paulo
Score4450
Notable places within 2 km4868
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
CordobaSao Paulo
Score7181
Price level global60.846.1
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
CordobaSao Paulo
Score7283
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months41
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCordobaSao Paulo
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 137 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 111 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureCordobaSao Paulo
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation120 m760 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaSao Paulo
City population323,26211,451,999
People per km²2587,519
Museums within 10 km1690
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2759

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.